The Enduring Seminoles by Patsy West
Early in this century, the Florida Seminoles struggled to survive in an environment altered by the drainage of the Everglades and a dwindling demand for animal hides. This revised and expanded edition is the only book available on the cultural tourism activities of an Indian tribe. Often told in the words of the many Seminoles interviewed for this book, this is a tale of unbelievable success against all odds as the Seminoles went from abject poverty to striking the first major international deal by a tribe with the purchase of the Hard Rock Caf in 2007.-
Voices of the Apalachicola
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Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams
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DEATH in the EVERGLADES
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Jacksonville
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Losing It All to Sprawl
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The Everglades
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Manatee Insanity
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The New Deal in South Florida
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Paving Paradise
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Balancing Evils Judiciously: the Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley
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Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State
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A Most Disorderly Court
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Frank Lloyd Wright'S Florida Southern College
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Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators
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The Tropic of Cracker
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Paradise Lost?
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Embry-Riddle at War
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The Columbia Restaurant
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Seasons of Real Florida
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Claude Pepper and Ed Ball
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In the Eye of Hurricane Andrew
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MAKING WAVES: FEMALE ACTIVISTS in TWENTIETH-CENTURY FLORIDA
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Come to My Sunland
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Government in the Sunshine State
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Sunshine Paradise
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Florida's Space Coast
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Castles in the Sand
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The Wide Brim
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Al Burt's Florida
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Black Miami in the Twentieth Century
Provides significant contextual information from a Native perspective that undermines facile assumptions about Indians as passive victims of an exploitative tourism industry, contributing to ongoing postcolonial debates about similar phenomena worldwide- Journal of American History ""What West makes most clear is that the Natives quickly perceived the degree to which the tourists valued dramatic displays and they adapted the process over the years to serve their own economic ends."" - Florida Historical Quarterly ""Should make some scholars look again at what they thought were the effects of commercial enterprises on the lives of American Indian people."" - American Indian Quarterly
Patsy West, director of the Seminole/Miccosukee Photographic Archive in Fort Lauderdale, writes a regular history column for the Seminole Tribune, the Seminole tribal newspaper.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780813032139 |
| ISBN 10 | 081303213X |
| Title | The Enduring Seminoles |
| Author | Patsy West |
| Series | The Florida History And Culture Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University Press of Florida |
| Year published | 2008-02-29 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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